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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
91: | [[Michigan]]
92: | [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...gian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]] Italian explorer naturalized French....
43: ... the source of the [[Nile]], discovered [[Lake Tanganyika]]
47: ...aboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[...
48: ...uese]] navigator, discovered [[Brazil]] and [[Madagascar]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
28: *[[Joseph Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
18: # [[William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]] (1907-1966) - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
9: ...lected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henr...
15: ....htm] This destroyed Besant's spirit, as it went against her ideals. She tried to accommodate Krishnam...
28: * Bhagavad Gita (Translation) (1905)
29: * Introduction to Yoga (1908) - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ... January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of...
6: ...]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her birth year as 1871 on her CV for Z?Universi...
8: ...he Russian workers' parties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of ...
12: ...st members of parliament focused more and more on gaining further parliamentary rights and on material...
14: ...ia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an indepen... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...t [[Copenhagen]], [[Paris]], and [[Rome]]. She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodicals...
9: ...zel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc...
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc...
26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA) - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...h Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and th...
5: ...e]] with many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time. In Montparnasse she ...
7: ...n]], where for a time, she went to work at the Omega Workshops on decorative art. Her artistic creatio...
11: ...artist [[Roger Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furni...
15: ...lly sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ge in 1898. Her mother, né¥ Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lod...
7: ...g for stardom, and she landed a leading role in a 1907 [[Broadway]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', w...
13: ... [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for en...
15: ... Upon hearing of his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, say...
38: ...ford]] in the Pickford private family plot in the Garden of Memory of the [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
11: ...France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
13: ...et her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. Du...
19: ...'27 Rue de Fleurus'', with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great artists...
23: ...s been described as a conservative fascist; she regarded the jobless as lazy, opposed [[Franklin D. Ro...
26: ...se of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator with the Vichy regime with connecti... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[...
10: ...e support, partially due to Siegbahn's prejudice against women in science. Hahn and Meitner met cland...
12: ...Germany. Some said also that Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partiall... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ... penetrating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
8: She received her doctorate in [[1907]] under [[Paul Gordan]], and rapidly built a worl...
9: ..., "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: ...ian and [[feminism|feminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...xtra-Mural school. She had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise medicine. ...
7: ...ped into the New hospital for women, and there Dr Garrett worked for over twenty years. In 1870 she o...
9: ...]), which was opened to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East A... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: ...|thumbnail|right|250px|A young '''Florence Nightingale''']]
3: '''Florence Nightingale,''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1820]]...
7: ...liant and strong-willed woman, Florence rebelled against the expected role for a woman of her status, ...
9: ...function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned with the appalling c...
11: ...medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then pres... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...all town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ..., she became an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]], and began her public speaking career at the age of 13 in t...
13: ...e disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on Se...
23: ... a 1912 [[Packard]] touring car with religious slogans painted on the side; standing in the back seat ...
35: ...nthly magazine dubbed ''Bible Call''. She also began broadcasting on [[radio]] in its infancy of the ... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
2: ...tional Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], [[London]]]]
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith Cavell]]
7: ... case became an important article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratfo...
9: ...on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...ad]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let ...
24: ...flapper starlet of the Twenties was wearyingly vulgar in an aging, falling star in the Sixties. Bankhe...
36: *They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referr...
42: *If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: '''Katharine Houghton Hepburn''' ([[May 12]], [[1907]] – [[June 29]], [[2003]]) was an iconic st...
5: ...g with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepb...
7: ...edal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eigh...
12: ...e attending Bryn Mawr and married after a short engagement. Hepburn and Smith's marriage was rocky fr...
21: ... Hepburn became the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]]. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
10: ...d her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same year she began making records for [[RCA Victor|Berliner/Victor]...
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